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She looks bad–strengthening to Category 5 and heading to south Florida.
Brendan Loy has all the latest. And TheStormTrack.com has a nifty new charting system that’s worth a look.
The Florida Masochist is tracking the storm.

Florida Cracker: “Looks like we’re not even going to get the chance to be wiped out by the bird [...]

You’ve no doubt read the news about DHS chief Michael Chertoff promising to “deport all illegal aliens.” Don’t believe the hype.
Chris Kelly gives it to you straight at The Immigration Blog.
Must-read.

File this under “We support our troops…by refusing to honor their service.”
Via Knight-Ridder:
Berkeley’s Veterans Day ceremony, scheduled for Nov. 11, was abruptly canceled on Monday because the volunteer organizing committee split over the political content.
At issue was a proposal by the chairman, singer/songwriter Country Joe McDonald, to have Bill Mitchell, a co-founder of Cindy Sheehan’s [...]

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The Counterterrorism Blog has breaking news on a possible threat to Baltimore tunnels. Feds are doubting the info, as they did [...]

Another soldier has stepped forward to criticize last week’s MSM brouhaha over President Bush’s “staged” press conference with troops in Iraq. Via the Chattanooga Times Free Press (hat tip: milblogger LT Ron Long):
A Chattanooga soldier now in Iraq with the 278th Regimental Combat Team said soldiers used their own words during comments made last week [...]

There’s pushback against the Wall Street Journal over its OU bomb story dud from Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at The Counterterrorism Blog.
More from John Hinderaker at Power Line and Mark Tapscott.
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Meanwhile, OU stadium security is on red alert for this weekend’s football game. The Daily Oklahoman/Newsok.com has more on evacuation plans:
Fans are urged to follow the safety [...]

I’ve written many times on racial preference policies for native Hawaiians that use a noxious “blood purity” test to benefit the privileged from everyone else. The madness continues.
Jeff Goldstein notes a new federal lawsuit by five Hawaiians challenging a similar policy. The plaintiffs claim that the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs “is illegally spending dollars [...]

File this under “How the MSM ignores facts, smears blogs, and publishes snit fits disguised as responsible journalism.”
Last week, I received a media inquiry from Wall Street Journal media reporter Joe Hagan. He wanted to talk about blogs and the University of Oklahoma bomber story. Although I was dismayed to learn the only coverage of [...]

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Looks like the Porkbusters blog campaign spearheaded by Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear is having an effect. Kudos.

Jon Henke has good analysis of the need for structural reform.
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335pmEDT Just got this in the mail for a blog event with House Republicans on the 20th:

Blog Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
~ Blog from [...]

Wrong:

(*330pmEDT update. Readers who complain to ABC are being redirected to this new version of the story with an edited headline.***)
Right:

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It was ugly in Toledo, Ohio, this weekend–and if you watched any of the cable news coverage or glanced at the national MSM headlines, as I did, you probably are still wondering what really [...]

Remember that old phrase, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression?”
Well, the Bush White House has tossed the truism out the window and is rebranding SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers–now with less religious flavor and more judicial filling!
I would dearly like this strategy to work and for President Bush’s promises about Miers [...]

Check this out (via the Virginian-Pilot):
The cats and dogs two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly used to put down animals, according to new warrants issued and served on Friday.
Additionally, the two employees were charged with three felony [...]

Good for the FBI.

Two weeks after Joel Hinrichs blew himself up outside the packed University of Oklahoma football stadium, we finally learn there was a suicide note. Or rather, a suicide sentence reportedly discovered on Hinrichs’ computer screen by investigators. The Sunday Daily Oklahoman (via NewsOK.com ) has the details:
The University of Oklahoma student who died in an [...]

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If you tune into C-SPAN right now, you [...]

Readers, I need your help. I just received an e-mail from Hurricane Katrina relief volunteer Nora Craig. She’s a small-business owner in Franklin, N.J., who led the effort for her city to “adopt” the devastated town of Lumberton, Miss. She has heard from another small town in need of help and is sending out an [...]

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Photo credit: Reuters/Yahoo!
It’s a big day in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq as citizens head to the polls to vote on the country’s proposed new constitution. There are some grave concerns about the document, but Roman Martinez, who served as political adviser to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, writes at NRO:
The [...]

SGT. Ron Long, an Army combat medic, was at the “staged” press conference in Iraq. He has blogged his response to the MSM Bush-bashing. (Hat tip: Reader John S.)
Here’s an excerpt:
Yesterday, I (bottom right corner in the picture) was chosen to be among a small group of soldiers assigned to the 42ID’s Task Force [...]

Oh, my Lord, this is priceless.
Big tip of the hat to Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters for the MSM catch of the day.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream…
Thank you, NBC, we needed a laugh.
(Hat tip: Reader Marty and LGF)
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More about the reporter in the canoe. She may be a laughingstock, but she’s “hot.”
Breitbart/AP [...]

A picture’s worth a thousand words
NRAnews.com blogger/radio host Cam Edwards wondered why CBS News allowed 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace to appear at an anti-gun Brady Center event late last month. Edwards describes the appearance:
That’s Mike Wallace two weeks ago at a Brady Center fundraiser in Washington, D.C. At the event, held at the French [...]

An overwhelming number of our troops support President Bush. This drives the MSM mad. So mad they lied about his Thanksgiving trip to Iraq in 2003. So mad they’ll flog anti-military stories that undermine national security.
And have no journalistic merit whatsoever.
NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell was breathless last night over her military-bashing “scoop” about the “staging” [...]

In light of this and this, the ACLU’s lawsuit against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers seems incredibly shortsighted. As always.
Hat tip: John Stephenson at Stop the ACLU, who notes: “The ACLU is against any kind of search no matter how it will protect us. They are against profiled searches, random searches, and now they show they [...]

Read my friend Michael Smerconish’s column. Print it out. Send it to your favorite politician.

Yesterday, I wrote about the MSM whitewashing Islam out of news reports. Today’s coverage of the violent Muslim terrorist outbreak in Russia underscores my point:
60 killed as Chechen gunmen attack city
Chechen rebel attack fuels growing unrest
Chechens attack Caucasus town
Police battle militants in Russia
Look how far down you have to read those stories before you are [...]

Eleven Marines come home from Vietnam.
R.I.P.

Anti-war playwright Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
Here’s his website, which proudly highlights Pinter’s recent moonbattery.
The website also features some of his brilliant poetry, including such sophisticated works as “American Football” (pardon the profanity, but as the site explains, it’s supposed to be “satirising through language that is deliberately violent, obscene, sexual and [...]

No, it’s not like Katrina or Rita or the Southeast Asian earthquake disaster, but the flooding in New Hampshire caused serious damage. Fourteen people are missing, three are dead, and about 1,000 were forced from their homes.
Local blogger Tom Hogan at Ninth State has photos and ways to help. More flood photos here.
N.H. coverage here [...]

The Democrat-run Washington D.C., government has been caught with its hand in the taxpayer-funded cookie jar. Jim McElhatton of the Washington Times reports:
The D.C. government employees tasked with providing care to the city’s poor have taken home nearly half of the more than $1 million in bonus money awarded by the District during the first [...]

Happy first blogiversary, Ian Schwartz! Ian runs The Political Teen, which supplies us all with indispensable videoblogging. If you’ve ever linked to him, why not send a few bucks to help him celebrate?
On Miers: John Fund paints an ugly picture of the vetting process; Tim Chapman weighs in on the sexism card. Steve Bainbridge is [...]

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Today is the fifth anniversary of the U.S.S. Cole bombing. Please take a moment to note the event on your blogs today if you have a chance. Stars and Stripes pays tribute to the 17 sailors killed in the terrorist attack, the dozens wounded, the survivors, and the families affected. Command Master [...]